What is the dangly/wiggly thing hanging at the back of the throat called?

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the uvula

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That would be your tonsils

Uvula tonsils

uvula

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The official name for it is the dangly/wiggly thing, at least that's what we have always called it.

That's ur tonsils.I neva can rember the name of it,seriously! Buh-Bye Xx(",)Xx

dunno really. Tonsils are they? no, i don't think they are actually. An epiglottis

that would b your tonsils (uvula)

Your hangy ball is called a Uvula. My friend had to have hers taken out when she got her tonsils out too!

tonsils Isn't it a dangly/wiggly thing? oh hell! after all this time!
why did you have to ask THAT quesiton? sob sob sob.
now im so confused, I want it to be a dangly/wiggly thing! I don't want it to be my epiglottis, ahhaaaa ahhaaaa

Tonsils Well, where I live they call it your "clack" !

sweetie that's the uvula

it's called your tonsels

Epiglottis! But I like the name danglywiggly thing better! Tonsils

Hi,
It's called your uvula. Nobody seems to know what it's purpose is.personally I think it may have been 'designed' to keep us from swollowing something that's too big for our esopaghus can handle-sort of an early warning system.

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